PAINTING INDUSTRY OF HAWAII v. ALM

No. 12094.

746 P.2d 79 (1987)

PAINTING INDUSTRY OF HAWAII MARKET RECOVERY FUND, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert A. ALM, Director of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; and The State of Hawaii, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Hawaii.

December 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Lilly, Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellant.

Nathan J. Sult, Staff, Attorney, Dept. of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, (Grant Tanimoto, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dept. of Atty. Gen., with him on brief), Honolulu, for defendants-appellees.

Before LUM, C.J., and NAKAMURA, PADGETT, HAYASHI and WAKATSUKI, JJ.


LUM, Chief Justice.

The issue in this appeal is whether a settlement agreement between the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (DCCA) and a corporate public works contractor regarding license law violations by the contractor must be disclosed to the public. The answer to this issue turns on whether the settlement agreement is a personal record under Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §§ 92-50 and 92E-1. The Circuit Court of the First Circuit ruled the...

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